LECTURE 5 - BUILDING STONE - ITS USES AND APPLICATIONS

Objectives of the Lecture:

• Building Stone
• Building Stone - Uses and Applications

Building Stone

Stone is a natural material obtained by the erosion of the rocks. Stones being used for the purpose of construction of the building structures are being termed as "Building Stones". Building stone not just only increase your's home beauty as well as provide good strength to your building structure. Our ancestors, long year ago, started using these stones as a building material as well as they also uses some of the stones to ignite the fire and to develop the sharp tools.

Let us move up towards the uses and applications of these Building Stones.


Building Stone - Uses and Applications

• It's being used in the construction of walls, masonry works, foundations,lintels, slabs, cornices etc.
• Stone is also being used in the construction of roads and pavements.
• Stones are also used as ballast in railway track gauges.
• It is also used as a coarse aggregate in concrete.
• It is also being used in making urinals, bathing tubs, and other products.
• Stone is also being used as a roofing as well as flooring material in a building.
• These stones are also used in the manufacture of the cement.
• Stones are also being used in the making of the sculpture arts.
• Stones are used in the water treatment process.
• Stones are used in building wells, construction of bridges, dams etc.
• Stones are used as an insulators in electrical appliances.
• Stones are also used in making the sharp tools.

LECTURE RELATED QUESTIONS:

1. Define Building Stone.

2. State the various uses and applications of building stones.